One of the 18 Carthusian Martyrs. Prior of The London Charterhouse - a Carthusian monastery. Refused to accept Henry VIII as the head of the church of England. Martyred at Tyburn.
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Saint John Houghton
Commemorated ati
Carthusian martyrs
The verse comes from "The Apocrypha: Prayer of Azariah, Chapter 1". We don't...
Charterhouse
The Great Cloister of The London Charterhouse, 1371 - 1538, once occupied thi...
Other Subjects
1 memorial
1 memorial
St John the Baptist upon Walbrook
First recorded in the 12th century. Destroyed in the Great Fire and never rebuilt. This 1799 map shows the whole site marked as "churchyard". The congregation merged with St Antholin Budge Row. The...
2 memorials
George Searles
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
1 memorial
David Livingstone
Explorer, missionary, writer and medic. Born at Blantyre, just south of Glasgow. Qualified as a doctor in order to go as a medical missionary to China. Got the source of the Nile wrong and failed t...
Person, Exploring, Religion, Seriously Famous, Africa, Scotland
2 memorials